Man in wheelchair struck by SUV in Quincy

Victim hospitalized after evening crash

Published 12:04 PM EDT Sep 19, 2013

QUINCY, Mass. -

A Quincy man is hospitalized in serious condition after he was struck by a car while in a wheelchair on a city street.

Police Lt. Jack Sullivan said the unidentified man was moving in the wheelchair along the southbound lane of Quincy Avenue when he was struck and thrown from the chair at 7:45 p.m. Wednesday, the Patriot Ledger reported.

Sullivan said a female driver, also unidentified, was in a 2008 Cadillac SUV, traveling southbound. She told police she was driving about 25 miles an hour, and that it was dark and she didn’t see the man.

Sullivan said the victim was taken to Quincy Medical Center with “serious but not life-threatening” injuries.

He said the driver wasn’t cited. The accident occurred at 301 Quincy Ave., near the Presidents Plaza shopping center.

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